Advice I Like: Investing and Growing Rich
Investing small amounts of money over a long time works miracles, but no one wants to get rich slow. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice,...
2025-02-28
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Blog Posts
The London Redgate Summit
In a week I’m heading to London for the Redgate Summit. I enjoyed these last year and had some very interesting conversations with customers, prospects, and a few Redgate...
2025-02-28
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Top 10 Careers in Data
Would you re-order these? Machine Learning Engineer $$$$$ Develop and deploy AI models Optimize machine learning algorithms for efficiency Work with big data frameworks to process large datasets Data...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions. I didn’t get my own post completed in time, but I’ll add it in the...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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A Little Brainstorming with an AI
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than send some emails or get on a call, I decided to ask my local AI...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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The Mysterious Empty Table
It seems like no matter how long you work with a system beyond a trivial size, you’ll find something new every so often. A little while ago, I found...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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Adding Manual Relationships Between Tables in the TDM Subsetter
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Dealing with Changing Data Formats: Schema Drift in Azure Data Factory
(2025-Feb-12) I will jump straight to the problem statement without a "boring" introduction, which, in a sense, already feels like an opening statement.Moving data between two or more endpoints is...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Using T-SQL Snapshot Backup - Seeding Availability Groups
In this post, the fifth in our series, I want to illustrate an example of using the T-SQL Snapshot Backup feature in SQL Server 2022 to seed Availability Groups...
2025-02-24
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A New Word: Tangency
tangency– n. a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live in the real world as it is, not too dreamy or wishful that things were...
2025-02-21
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers